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Strafford Notes, 16 October, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:52:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Sorry, didnt make Gibby's tonight. Not feeling up to it

October 16
Events:
Oct 16 Concord Gibson’s Books,– Featuring Pat Frisella, S Stephanie and Stephan Scaer –
7-9pm – Open Mic afterwards. Everyone is invited. Newcomers are encouraged. Parking: Parking is free after 5pm. If you don’t find a place on the street, we highly recommend the parking garage right behind the Red River Cinema. The entrance is down on Storrs Street (which parallels main street). For further information contact Don Kimball at prisdon.comcast.net.
OnApersonalNote:
Rochester library has a booksale going on until this Friday-OHNO …I spent $10. https://www.facebook.com/rplnh

Born:
1016
Noah Webster (1758-05/28/1843) Compiler of the first American language dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/noah.htm
http://1828.mshaffer.com/
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854– 11/30/1900) Irish writer and wit
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Wilde%2C%20Oscar
Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel

NAY, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring,

Sad olive-groves, or silver-breasted dove,

Teach me more clearly of Thy life and love

Than terrors of red flame and thundering.

The empurpled vines dear memories of Thee bring:
5
A bird at evening flying to its nest,

Tells me of One who had no place of rest:

I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing.

Come rather on some autumn afternoon,

When red and brown are burnished on the leaves,
10
And the fields echo to the gleaner’s song,

Come when the splendid fulness of the moon

Looks down upon the rows of golden sheaves,

And reap Thy harvest: we have waited long.
http://www.bartleby.com/143/index.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=10/16/2013
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-11/27/1953) U.S. playwright, Nobel Prize for literature in 1936
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/oneill-bio.html
Louis Althusser 1918-October 22, 1990 French philosopher,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/althusse.htm
William Frank "Will" Stanton (1918 - Dec 31, 1996) American humorist
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=197627250345072&story_fbid=323940711047058
Charles Dolan, (1926 – ) American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
http://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-dolan/
Günter Grass(1927-), German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker Nobel Prize laureate
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ggrass.htm
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/grass-bio.html
Bob Weir (1947 - ) US singer, Rhythm guitar (Grateful Dead)
http://www.bobweir.net/
Tim Robbins (10/16/1958 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000209/
John Mayer 1977- US Musician
http://johnmayer.com/
Passed:
1016
Marie Antoinette (11/02/1755 –1795) Austria-born French royalty
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/biography/marieantoinette.html
Robert Fergusson (Sept 5,1750 -1774) Scot Augustan Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/fergusson-robert
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/robert-fergusson
Andrés Bello, (Nov 29, 1781- 1865) Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/59909/Andres-Bello
Blonde

Do you know, blonde, what favor I solicit
When I cover the altars with offerings?
Not rich furnishings, not superb lands,
Neither a table that flatters the apetite.

At the edge of Aragua I want a parcel
To supply me with simple pleasures,
And close to my rustic home
A brook that runs among the rocks.

To feel good around the summery warmth,
I also want my plot to have a grove,
Where the proud coconut and the willow can grow.

I'll be happy if in this refuge I die;
And, upon exhaling my fugitive breath,
I stamp on your lips my last goodbye!
http://www.poemhunter.com/andres-bello/poems/
James A. Albert Michener (02/03/1907 –1997) US writer
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mic0bio-1
Frank O'Rourke (1916 – April 27, 1989) American writer - western mystery sport sfiction
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/rourkeprofiles/frankwriter.html
Jean Parker Shepherd, (July 26, 1921-1999) American radio and TV personality, writer and actor A Christmas Story
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791789/
Pierre Salinger,1925- 2004 John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38928-2004Oct16.html
Dan Wheldon (June 22,1978- 2011) Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
http://www.danwheldonmemorial.com/
Sites:
http://roadatlanta.com/
http://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20080731-ENTERTAIN-807310330
http://omukuvah.org/literature/poetry
http://www.effinghamnh.net/
http://www.towerjournal.com/
http://archive.org/details/naropa
History:
1016
1847-Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was published
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jane-eyre-is-published
1859- John Brown army seized the United States arsenal and its rifle works at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
http://langston-and-us.over-blog.com/article-october-16-73493029.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered"
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_cardiff_giant
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney
http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about-disney/disney-history
1934 – Mao Zedong led Chinese Communists in the Long March
http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/china/LongMarch.html
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/warsaw_ghetto.htm
1962 – The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/timeline.html
1968 – U S athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the Olympics team for participating in the Black Power salute
http://www.posterrevolution.com/gallery/item.cfm?ID=626384&class=1001&gclid=CPe7_YCFm7oCFYSd4AodYjoAqw
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/megamarch/biographies/bios.html
http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/megamarch/march.html
Bonus Poem:
From KALI
Kali desires a mortal, whose day
Begins with her, ends at nightfall
In her arms, a man who will die

Without her, whose love is fallible
But secure, she wants to be held
Like a warm creature, not a fable.

Loneliness drives this goddess mad
She is vagrant, her limbs askew
She begs a mate, her hair unmade.

Fickle as Shiva, memory deserts her
Chandi or Durga or Parvati, which
Is she, which of her selves weeps here?

Even Ganesha, for whom she feels
Only tenderness, excludes her, even he
Seems impatient with her flaws.

Where should such a goddess turn?
Kali, mistress of the temporal worlds
Wants bliss defined in human terms.
Rukmini Bhaya Nair

© 2004, Rukmini Bhaya Nair
From: Yellow Hibiscus: New and Selected Poems
Publisher: Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2004
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/2736

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